Category:God's Moving
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the dynamic, transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord's movements. The Personality of Godhead is not a dead stone or a static, inactive force; He moves everywhere—both within and without—by His personal will to perform His beautiful pastimes. While material scientists, speculators, and even great demigods cannot understand the true meaning of His movements, pure devotees constantly meditate on the Lord whether He is standing, sitting, lying down, or moving. Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights how the Lord moves His eyebrows in anger to frighten the ocean or in cunning sweetness to enchant mother Yaśodā, and how a pure Vaiṣṇava is essentially a "moving temple" because he carries the moving Lord within his heart.
- The Dynamic Cause of Creation: The entire cosmic manifestation, including the progress of time and the passing ages, depends entirely on the movement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Defeating Impersonalism: Māyāvādīs falsely believe the Absolute Truth is static and legless, but the Vedic scriptures confirm the Lord moves effortlessly everywhere by His inconceivable potency.
- Inconceivable All-Pervading Pastimes: The Lord's movements defy all material laws, whether He is stepping beyond Satyaloka as Trivikrama or moving as a gigantic tortoise to churn the ocean of milk.
- The Sweetness of His Gestures: Pure devotees relish the intimate, beautiful movements of the Lord, such as the ringing of the bells on baby Kṛṣṇa's waist or the graceful movement of His eyebrows.
- The Devotee as a Moving Temple: A true yogī or advanced Vaiṣṇava is considered a moving temple because they constantly carry the fully active, moving form of Lord Viṣṇu within their heart.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Transcendental Nature of God's Moving.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "God's Moving"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- According to the Mayavada philosophy, when one becomes a sannyasi he is to be considered a moving Narayana. Mayavada philosophy holds that the real Narayana does not move because, being impersonal, He has no legs
- Anantadeva, who was calmly holding all the planets on His hood, was moving in this way and that due to the transcendental vibration from Krsna's flute, which penetrated through the covering of this universe and reached to the spiritual sky
- As long as there is a demand for sense satisfaction, there is no chance for pacification; on the contrary, by unnecessary dry speculative arguments, the whole matter becomes distorted, and thus the Lord moves still further away from our understanding
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- It is He only who in His form of Trivikrama moved His leg effortlessly beyond the topmost planet, Satyaloka, up to the neutral state of the three modes of material nature. And all were moved
- It is predicted that as the sun and moon gradually move west, the movement They (Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda) began five hundred years ago will come to the Western civilizations by Their mercy
- It is stated that when Mother Yasoda saw that the child was moving, ringing the bells on His waist, smiling at her with a pearl between His nostrils and with butter on His hands, she became wonderfully pleased to see her little child in that fashion
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- Since an advanced devotee carries Lord Visnu within his heart, he is a moving temple and a moving Visnu
- Sincerely extolled in these words, Lord Visnu, shining very beautifully on the shoulders of Garuda, replied with words as sweet as nectar. His eyebrows moved gracefully as He looked at the sage (Kardama Muni) with a smile full of affection
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- The creation depends on the movement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of all causes
- The Personality of God is not a dead stone, nor is He inactive, as is poorly thought by some schools. He moves with the progress of time, & therefore He knows all about the past & future, along with His present activities. There is nothing unknown to Him
- The word carantam means "moving." The Lord moves everywhere - within and without - and we simply have to make our vision clear so that we may see Him
- Thus always merged in devotional service, the yogi visualizes the Lord standing, moving, lying down or sitting within him, for the pastimes of the Supreme Lord are always beautiful and attractive
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- What then is to be said of ordinary speculators like the so-called philosophers of this material world? - even great yogis, demigods, saints and sages have been unable to understand the Supreme Lord's bodily feature and His movements
- When He desired to move from one body to another, the navel and the air of departure and death were combinedly created. The navel is the shelter for both, namely death and the separating force
- When mother Yasoda saw that the child (Lord Damodara) was moving, ringing the bells on His waist, smiling at her with a pearl between His nostrils and with butter on His hands, she became wonderfully pleased to see her little child in that fashion